I was in Melbourne for Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 09, and I found this busker standing outside Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. He was playing the hit 90's track "What Is Love" on bass guitar, Pianica Melodica, with the assistance of a loop pedal. What is remarkable (evidently) is that he did the entire thing wearing a chicken suit. The real action in this video starts at around 1:20, when he gets DOWN with the improv action on the Pianica.

I wonder if this performer paid their Licensing Fee to have Performance Rights on this song. If not, then all of the money given to them during the performance is STOLEN MONEY, and should immediately be surrendered to the RIAA. they should then present themself, their bass guitar, keyboarding instrument, and chicken suit for immediate incarceration.

Where Australians live, they have A$1 and A$2 coins (the A$2 coin is currently worth about $1.82 of those US paper dollars). Up here in Canada we have those too, and we frequently toss ’em to buskers. I can only assume the Aussies are as generous.

Why don’t we have street musicians like this in Helsinki? To date, the two most unusual things I have seen on the street in Helsinki have been Black Superman (he wears a superman costume and balances on a rope tied between two trees), and a trained cat show put on by a woman and (presumably) her children.

I was in the CBD last night (quite pissed apparently, judging from my hangover), and walked by this gorgeous busker singing Joni Mitchell’s Yellow Taxi… she was so good, I turned around and parked my arse for half an hour : )

I wonder if he started out playing on the corner of his driveway with the pianica. A gift from his dead mother. When he made enough money he hedged his bets and bought the guitar. Now he went to bigger and better street corners until he finally bought the loop petal and amp. He started to make it big, $20 from some nice business man who enjoyed walking to work everyday and hearing a wonderful rendition of “What is love” his favorite song. Having enough money now, he could finally do what he always wanted. He ran as fast as his street performing legs could take him and bought the final piece. A chicken suit. Now he plays all three things, in that hard won chicken suit. Play for the angels chicken man, play for the angels.

@mdh : I have never had any problems with Vimeo on FF, but FYI as the poster of the video, I’ve been informed that my “free embedded” plays have long since been used up (the video has hit 42 and a half thousand plays already), and imho you might have better luck if you just watched the vid directly on the vimeo site. :)

this has been bothering me for a while, maybe a fellow boinger can explain why Vimeo videos wont play on my computer? I have a Clear G4 wireless connection and run MacOS X v.10.5.8. YouTube plays fine or any problems solve by letting it buffer slightly. I can wait for the whole Vimeo file to buffer and playback is still f-ed up. Oh yeah, I usually run Firefox but Safari is no better. I wanna watch the CHICKEN!!!

Ugh. This is pretty awesome, but all music associated with Night at the Roxbury is pretty much ruined for me.

The soundtrack keeps a fairly consistent beat the whole way through at we used it in marching band for practice. Hours in the hot Texas sun, hundreds of kids marching back and forth to “Make That Money”.